"I will agree that it is a good thing to help out the poor. But, it isn't a good thing to steal from one group to give to another. Today's tax scheme makes people very generous - with someone else's money. I prefer that we get the government out of the welfare business all together and let people give what they feel is right out of their own earnings."
That is why I prefer a flat tax. That's wha twe have today through a graduated tax. The government is like Sanata Claus and couldn't agree more gov. needs to completely remove itself from subsidizing ANYONE. I include, loans, welfare, low income housing, you name it.
I'm pretty comfortable with either the flat tax or the sales tax, though I prefer the sales tax. Either way would be a drastic improvement from the miriad of tax rules that we now experience at the federal level.